Tag Archives: Fly Fishing
Sunday Classic / How Louis Got His Groove Back
IT'S HARD TO OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFIDENCE IN FLY FISHING. IT'S OFTEN THE SPECIAL SAUCE ON SUCCESS. I squint into the sun. My eyes burn from sweat and sun screen. I take a few deep breaths and puff them back out. I stretch my...
Saturday Shoutout / Jazz and Fly Fishing
POPULATION OF NORDIC COUNTRIES 25,651,443 8 MILLION GO FISHING EVERY YEAR 100,000 FLY FISH About 10,00 of them don't hate jazz. Of that 10,000 only 8 are both professional jazz musicians and fly fishers. This is the story of 4 of them. That's the opening of Jazz and Fly...
Winston’s B3-LS 2 Weight, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
THIS LITTLE GREEN WISP OF A ROD IS SO MUCH MORE THAN I EXPECTED. For some time I've been asking myself, "Do I really need a 2 weight?" At some point this year the question became mute. I wanted a 2 weight and that was enough....
Hellgrammite, The King Kong of Aquatic Insects
I was on the water trout fishing the other day, when my buddy Erik Ashlin said, "it was just about this time last year, when all the hellgrammites began crawling into the shallows to begin their pupation. Let me flip over a rock and see...
Tenkara and the Single Fly Approach
ONE OF THE MOST APPEALING ASPECTS OF TENKARA FISHING IS THE CONCEPT OF USING ONLY A SINGLE FLY. For folks considering tenkara, this concept is likely THE most difficult to embrace- especially if they have a western fly fishing background. However, I like to say it...